What are these things in my Potato Patch?

What are these things in my Potato Patch?

Thu Jun 22, 2017 12:27 am

My potato patch has something that looks like fingers growing up out of the soil. First time I saw these 3 weeks ago it looked like a hand burred in the soil with black fingers. There are about 90 to 100 of these fingers in the potato patch. They look like wood with a long wooden root that goes down deep into the soil. Most grow in groups of 3, 4, 5, and 6. They were not there when I planted the potatoes 3 months ago. Now they look like dead wooden fingers with dead wooden roots, they break like dead sticks.

I have potatoes. I harvested 2 and we had them for dinner. I planted Kinnebec.

Re: What are these things in my Potato Patch?

Mon Jul 10, 2017 2:20 am

Your pics look identical to mine. I use facebook to post pictures it is many times easier that photobucket and others. No reply in weeks I deleted all the pics. If I get too many pics on FB it is hard to find the good stuff so I delete a lot of stuff from time to time. I dug my potatoes up weeks ago. It was interesting potato patch was full of that stuff but other crops near the potatoes have done of that stuff in it. I wonder if that fungus stuff was promoted to grow by the potatoes? The stuff breaks like wood.